Epicycle vs Null - What's the difference?
epicycle | null |
(astronomy) A small circle whose centre is on the circumference of a larger circle; in Ptolemaic astronomy it was seen as the basis of revolution of the "seven planets", given a fixed central Earth.
*, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.155:
(mathematics) Any circle whose circumference rolls around that of another circle, thus creating a hypocycloid or epicycloid.
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As nouns the difference between epicycle and null
is that epicycle is epicycle while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.epicycle
English
Noun
(en noun)- Is it not [Philosophie], thatteacheth miserie, famine and sicknesse to laugh? Not by reason of some imaginarie Epicicles , but by naturall and palpable reasons.
Derived terms
* epicyclicnull
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.